JOHANNESBURG: A British Airways airplane carrying 202 people struck an office building at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport with its wing while taxiing for take-off late on Sunday, slightly injuring four, aviation authorities said.

The Boeing 747-400 en route for London Heathrow Airport took a runway that was too narrow for the plane, said South African Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokeswoman Phindiwe Gwebu on Monday. “The control tower told them to take one taxiway and they took another one.”

Four people inside the building were lightly injured, but the 185 passengers and 17 crew on board were unharmed during the late-night accident.

The stuck plane was “removed to a safe palce at the airport” on Monday and the passengers were taken to a nearby hotel.